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1993 Map of Sheep Mountain

Name: 1993 Topographic Map of Sheep Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1996
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1996

About this map

Custer National Forest dominates this Harding County landscape, where the high ridges of Sheep Mountain rise above a complex network of drainage basins and named springs. The terrain is marked by the Buttes and the prominent Willard Gap, defining a region where water sources were critical to land use. Isolated outposts like H Jensen and water points such as North Marty Well and South Marty Well suggest the ranching and livestock history of the northwestern South Dakota plains.

Transportation through this part of the forest is largely dependent on 4wd tracks and the established Marty Road. The naming of numerous springs, including Moonshine Spring, Ball Spring, and Bixler Spring, provides a specific geographic record for genealogists and local historians tracking early twentieth-century land claims and the essential hydrology of the Antelope Creek and Sheep Creek watersheds.